A review of caveats in statistical nuclear image analysis

Analytical Cellular Pathology

Volumn 16, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 63-82

  Schulerud, Helene ^a,b   Kristensen, Gunner B ^b   Liestøl, Knut ^a   Vlatkovic, Liljana ^b   Reith, Albrecht ^b   Albregtsen, Fritz ^a   Danielsen, Hàvard E ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

^b OSLO UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Norway)

Author keywords

Cancerous cells; Classification methods; Nuclear image analysis; Precancerous cells; Sampling methods; Statistical evaluation; Testing features

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CELL NUCLEUS; DENSITOMETRY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MORPHOMETRICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; UTERINE CERVIX CANCER;

EID: 0031959932     PISSN: 09218912     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1155/1998/436382     Document Type: Article

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